Krebill, Mike: - "Mike Krebill is an inductee into the National Wild Foods Hall of Fame. Considered by many to be one of the great foragers living today, he is a sought-after speaker at major foraging events across North America - from Oregon to New York, Tennessee to Ontario, Canada, and states in between. An award-winning life science teacher for 35 years, he was one of the architects of a six-year effort to bring environmental education into Michigan's public schools. As a young leader in environmental management initiatives, he was named to Gov. Rockefeller's Central New York Regional Planning & Development Board. Early in his career he was recruited to become Iowa's first Naturalist, and today is an honorary member of the Iowa Association of Naturalists. He has been active in Scouting at every level for 50+ years, and has received multiple awards for outstanding service as a wild plants educator. Mike had been botanical technical editor for 14 books on foraging by well-known authors (including Sam Thayer's Nature's Garden and Leda Meredith's The Forager's Feast). Mike's first book, The Scout's Guide to Wild Edibles (St. Lynn's Press ), won a National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for Nature Guidebooks."